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At the first Saucon Valley School Board meeting in January, parent Jennifer Schmell told members she would return Jan. 28 to again demand action on the hiring of a district resource officer, and this time with backup. Schmell kept her promise Tuesday night.
Under the program, those who graduate from college or another post-secondary institution in Pennsylvania beginning next fall would be able to exchange each year of service as a volunteer firefighter or a member of an EMS organization for loan forgiveness.
When Fountain Hill residents head to the polls Nov. 5 to select the candidates they believe will best represent them on borough council, one issue in particular may feature prominently in their decisions: the future of the small community’s police force.
Pennsylvania State Fire Commissioner Bruce Trego testified at the hearing Thursday that the number of volunteer firefighters in the state has dropped from approximately 300,000 in the 1970s to 38,000 in 2018.
A special Fountain Hill Borough Council meeting held Tuesday to discuss various options for providing police coverage to the borough drew a large crowd and the accusation by the head of the borough’s police officer association that at least some council members are “anti-police.”
A resident of the neighborhood off Black River Road near Rt. 378 in Lower Saucon Township has reported to Saucon Source that there was an attempted car break-in outside the Sanbrook Apartments earlier today.
The Fountain Hill Police Department said Thursday that officers arrested four teenage boys, ages 16 throught 17, after they were stopped in a vehicle that had been stolen earlier from a borough resident. The news came as the borough is in the throes of an at-times contentious conversation about the force’s future, as a result of budget woes.
At the Lower Saucon Township Council meeting Wednesday, Police Chief Thomas Barndt introduced three officers who were recently promoted from within the department: Sgt. Christopher Leidy, Det./Cpl. Eric Marth and Ofc. Jared Gunshore.
Thanks to a mid-summer heat wave it’s going to be hotter than normal in Hellertown this weekend. So we’ve come up with a few suggestions for convenient and cool family-friendly fun.
Borough council members said Monday they are concerned that the additional traffic traveling to and from Saucon Valley schools will worsen congestion at the Walnut and Main intersection betweeen Aug. 26–when the new school year begins–and the completion of the new bridge.
In a news release Friday Hellertown Police said that on June 14 personal belongings were stolen from some vehicles that were left unsecured in the 1000 block of Detweiler Avenue.
